Proverbs 6:12

A worthless, wicked person is marked by deceitful, crooked speech. Corrupt character shows itself in a perverse mouth.

Cross-references · 22

• Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• 1 Tim 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• Prov 4:24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
• Prov 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
• Ps 52:2–4Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Acts 20:30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• Titus 1:10–11For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
• Prov 17:4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
• Prov 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• Prov 2:12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• Prov 6:14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
• Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
• Ps 73:8–9They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
• Prov 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
• Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
• Jer 24:8–10And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
• 1 Sam 17:28And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
• Jer 24:2One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
• Jas 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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